Meat-clamp for meat-slicing machines.



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APILIOATIO! FILED AUG. 2, 1910.

1,017,274. Patented Feb. 13, 1912.

JOHANNES COBNELIS VAN BEEKEL, OF IZQBIIOH' SWITZERLAND.

MEAT-CLAMP FOR MEAT-SLIGING MACHINES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Jomnnne Oomvnus vim Breanne, a subject of the Queen of the.

Netherlands, residing at Zurich, Switzerland, agent, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Meat-Clamp for Meat Slicing Mnchines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to meat slicing machines and it has for its object to provide for the same an easily manipulated meat clamp adapted'to take the place of the usual doub e upright rack and separate serrated clamp lever.

Under my invention the clamp lever, which is pivoted at one end thereof, is adapted to move through an arc of a circle and is held down upon themeat by 5 ring ressure," means being also rovide '.w ereliy the lever can be readily eld in position and released.

In order that my invention may be clearly understood,I have hereunto appended an exlanatory sheet of drawings, whiclrshows, y way of illustration, one mode of carrying out the same.

Figure 1 is an end elevation of a slicing machine meat table rovided with my improved meat clamp. *ig. 2 is a plan of the same.

Referring to the drawings :a is the meat table, I) the sliding meat plate thereon, and c the feed screw for the meat late.

In the arrangement shown 1 rovide near the feed screw c, and paralle with it, a

, spindle e which is rotatably supported in meat plat e a boss h by means of which brackets and f which are secured to, the

b and have each a part 6 surrounding the feed screw- 0. 1

c, c are brackets fixed to the table and carrying the feed screw.

,On the bracket f is fixed a ratchet-wheel j. The brackets f, f, are connected toether by a bridge g which carries a cam ever 1 for operating the usual saddle nut orha f nut not shown) of the feed. screw c. When the alt nut is in engagement with the feed screw- 0 and the latter is rotating the half nut will be moved along the feed screw and it will carr with it the brackets f and f and the spind e e and meat plate 6.

Secured at one end of the spindle e is a clam lever h which is serrated at its undersi e, the lever beingfigpreferably, of

curved shepe, as shown in 1, and having it is secured. to.

Specification of Lettenletent. A plication filed August 52,1910.

Patented Feb. 13, 1912. serial No. 575,052.

the spindle e. -.A pawl k is pivotally carried on a pin l rejecting from a pro'ection h on the bossli of the clamp lever and this pawl k is adapted to be put into and out of enga ement with the teeth of the ratchetwhee j by means of a lever n having a slot n at one end 11. thereof which en a es a ease in handling, the end n of the lever n.

preferably, shaped as shown in the draw vings.

i A torsion spring 1- is arranged on the spindle e and secured atone end 7* to the bracket f its other endrn, being secured to the spindle e and the arrangement is such that on the clamp it being moved upwai-d from the position shown at Fig. 1, and the spindle 0 thereby caused to make a partial revolution, the spring 1' will be put in tension, the pawl is having, meantime, slip ed over the teeth of the fixed ratchet-whee j. When the end h of the clamp it has been raised the desired height the pawl Io engages one of the teeth of the ratchet-wheel 7', thereby retaining the clamp h in the desired position, the torsion 5 "ring r being meanwhile held in compresman. When theclamp is held up in this manner there is no danger of the same comin down on the operators hands while layclamp the usual uprights are dispensed with and the table left quite free for the insertion orremoval 'of meat.

, Hav'in now fully described my invention what I c aim a d desire to secure by Let- .ters Patent is 1. A meat clamp for meat slicing machines com rising, in combination. "."1 mm lever ada ed to move throu h the ar "1 b a circle spring means for forcing down the clamp lever and ratchet wheel and pawl gear whereb the clamp lever can be retained out 0 engagement with the meat.

2. meat clamp for meat slicing n achines comprising, in combination, a clamp lever adapted to move through the arc of a circle, spring means forforcing down the clamp lever, ratchet wheel and pawl gear whereby the clamp lever canbe retained out of engagement with the meat, and means fulcrumed to the clamp lever for disengaging the pawl from the ratchet wheel.

3. A meat clamp for meat slicing machines comprising, in combination, a clamp lever adapted. to move through the arc of a circle spring means for forcing down the clamp lever, ratchet wheel and pawl gear whereby the clamp lever can be retained out of enga ement with the meat and a hand lever 11 engaging the .pawl from the ratchet wheel;

4. A meat clamp for meat slicing machines-comprising, in combination, a clamp crlimed to the clamp lever for dislever adapted to move through the arc of a circle, spring means forforc ng down the clamp lever, ratchet wheelahd pawl gear whereby the clamp can be retained out of engagement with the meat, a pin in the pawl, anda hand lever pivoted to the back .of the clamp and havin a slot at one end which slot engages the pm of the pawl.

5. A meat clamp for meat slicing machines comprising, in combination a clamp lever adapted to move through the arc of a circle, a screw for feeding forward the said clamp lever"i spring means for holding Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents'cach, by addressing the Commissioner of Infants,

Washington, D. 0;" i

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